St. Louis County NAACP

The local chapters want to improve literacy rates in the region, launching the "Right to Read" campaign with a mission to get children — especially Black children — proficient in fourth grade reading by 2030.

SSM Health is shutting down its trauma center at DePaul Hospital in Bridgeton, the last state-designated trauma center in north St. Louis County. SSM Health officials say it's because so few patients who come to the hospital ER need trauma services, but advocates and EMS workers say the decision could put patients with life-threatening injuries at risk.

The St. Louis County NAACP chapter and Epworth Children and Family Services have launched a food distribution program to feed families hurt the most by…

The St. Louis County NAACP announced Friday that John Bowman Sr. is its newest president.Bowman has served as interim president since April, following the…

The St. Louis County NAACP is throwing its support behind the group’s suspended president even as the national association presses on with an…

Updated 5:30 p.m., April 19, with Dellwood Mayor Reggie Jones calling for the resignation of the St. Louis County NAACP president — Better Together’s…

John Gaskin III, the new St. Louis County NAACP president, says there are two local civil rights issues he wants to address: community policing and…

U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, a California Democrat and rising national star, delivered a two-pronged address in St. Louis on Thursday that appeared to be…

The St. Louis County NAACP is launching two new initiatives on the eve of the first anniversary of the death of Michael Brown: one to provide free legal…